Thirteenth Moon

UK Workshops

Dying to Dance

Calver Village Hall

June 14 - 15th 2003

Dancing towards midsummer, we blossom and die to dance again.
A 5Rhythms dance weekend workshop with mask-making, drawing and writing
processes to catalyse the essence of our inner artist in the dance
of life. A wonderful workout for your creative conjuror!

Beautiful venue in rural Derbyshire.

Cost: £70, (concs. £60, £50)
Book by sending £20 deposit or full amount by the end of May.
After that the fee is £80. Cheques payable to Cora Greenhill

Bookings and enquiries about accommodation, travel etc to
Claire Armstrong

Dancing Nature's Way

A weekend to celebrate the spring and to feel its power of renewal
within and without.

5Rhythmsô dance and creative writing in The Lake District.
with Cora Greenhill

Nab Cottage, Rydal, Cumbria
8 (eve) 9/10 March 2002

We explore free, intuitive movement and spontaneous writing to re-create
connection between inner and outer landscapes: dance as a version of being
home, language that comes from the core. By bringing awareness with compassion
to the experience of being embodied, by breathing and responding authentically
to rhythm, we can transcend isolation and feel or 'gnow' our connection
to all life. From such experience, our voices change location as our commitment
to ourselves and our world becomes a core creative impulse of being human
in the heart of nature.

The setting is in the rugged Cumbrian hills right on the shores of Lake
Rydal. In this very special venue, a beautifully converted barn with wood
burning stove, we work indoors and out, and are nurtured by the old-fashioned
comfort of Nab Cottage.

Times We begin Fri 7pm, end Sun about 4pm. Cost (includes all meals)£105,
or £95 if booked by Feb.8th. (Limited concessionary places £75:
apply asap.)
Meals are delicious homecooked, and include supper on Fri, lunch on
Sat/ Sun and dinner Sat.
Booking: £50 (usually non-returnable) deposit to me at address
below.
Comfortable B&B on premises, around £22 per night (depending
on room type). Book B&B direct with Nab Cottage. They will require
a deposit. Say you're on this course and ask for travel directions if you
need them, also any special diet etc. Tel. 015394 35311. email ell@nab.dial.lakesnet.co.uk.
Numbers are limited: early booking strongly advised.

Spring in our Step

Come and celebrate the spring and infuse yourself with the energy of
new life by taking part in a day (or two) of free, creative dance!

These day workshops are suitable as an introduction or as a further
exploration for those who practise the 5Rhythms. Both days will allow you
to dance all of the rhythms, but there will be different emphasis.

Spring in our Steps 1

Chesterfield. Saturday March 23rd 2002

at Spring Equinox, will allow a deep, moving meditation on flowing and
stillness: the rhythms from which all growth comes.

During the stillness cycle at the end of the day, we will create a
spring labyrinth, which we will walk as a meditation. This ritual is a
simple and profound way of letting go of our habitual, linear patterns
of thinking, and accessing the guidance of a more intuitive part of ourselves,
helping our minds to come more into balance. The Equinox is all about balance!

10.45 for 11am until 6pm
Cost: £30 (concessions and those paying in full before March
1st £25)

Spring in our Steps 2

Doncaster. Sunday April 7th 2002

two weeks later, as the earth springs into growth and early blossom is
bursting out, we'll spend more time exploring the ground between flowing
and staccato, earth and fire, and the lyrical edges of both!

'Naked they came to that smooth-swarded bower,
And at their feet the crocus brake like fire'Ö(Tennyson!)
Let's find what is waiting to burst out in our lives and grow!

10.45 for 11am until 5pm
Cost: £25 (concessions and those paying in full before March
22nd £20)
(Enquiries on this course to Catiya, see calendar).

Bargain multibuy! Book on both days by March 1st and pay only £40!
(pay in full, or pay £20 by March 1st and £20 on March 23rd)

Dancing on a Dark Planet

5Rhythmsô dance day for Winter Solstice 2001

with Cora Greenhill

Sat December 22nd

Calver Village Hall

Letting go of what we've finished with, releasing what we're holding
onto, making space for welcoming the new.

Releasing our fears, anger and grief into the bliss of our dance through
the rhythms, a crucible for the alchemy of change. Dancing in honour
the cycle of life, death and rebirth, for ourselves and for our world.

Starting with a sunrise ritual at a stone circle,
(meet Grindlford café 7.30 am, dancing at Calver from 10.45am
through to dark, about 6pm).

Rhythms and the Labyrinth

A day to dance deeply into a 5 Rhythmstm
wave and take part in

creating a magical labyrinth ritual.

September 29th 2001 Chesterfield

The labyrinth is an ancient tool of the sacred found mysteriously
in far flung places on earth from earliest times, and now re-emerging as
a crucial instrument for spiritual seekers of many orientations in our
time. Creating and walking or dancing the labyrinthís winding path allows
us to leave linear time and space and enter into a more feminine consciousness
where we are guided by our intuition and can connect with a sense of our
core being. If we are attentive and open to the unexpected, we can ask
questions and receive answers: it is very practical. It takes us to the
centre of things and shows us the way out. It has probably always been
associated with dance and rhythm, and thus the kind of ëgnowingí that comes
when the two sides of our mind come into balance. Dancing the 5Rhythms
is a perfect preparation for the ritual.

Time: 11 - 5(ish) pm
Cost: £25 (£20/15 concs) booked in advance.

To book: send full amount (or £10 deposit), cheques made out to
Cora Greenhill, CC details on cheque please, and enclose address and tel
no. Please book early, if poss well before latest booking date of Sept.22.
Any places left after that date or at the door will cost £30. Details
including venue will be sent to you on booking.

Stirring the Waters: Finding the
Flow of the New

A day workshop in 5 Rhythms dancework for the new year
with Cora Greenhill

Saturday January 13th 2001

The more deeply we can surrender to the flow, the more energy we have available
for the other rhythms.
This is a day to explore different ways of entering, being in, and
leaving the flowing rhythm, and its relationship to the other four!
Let yourself melt into your bodyís dreams, into contact and floorwork,
and follow the ripples and surges of energy bursting out of the soil like
spring bulbs!

Venue: The Greentop, Brightside, Sheffield.
Time: 11am - 6pm
Cost: £25 (conc. £20 or negotiable for helpers - please
ask.)
Booking essential: send £10 deposit to me at above address, preferably
to arrive by Jan. 8th - or send it off now as an early new yearís gift
to yourself! (For anyone who hasnít paid a deposit, the cost would be £30
if available).

NB Come to my first Dancing in the City class of the year on Fri. 12th
as a brilliant warm up! 7.30 pm, Greentop.
Send Email to Cora

The Fire of Bride

A weekend for women to feed our creative fire at Imbolc 2001

Saturday Feb 3rd -Sunday Feb 4th 2001

Imbolc is the festival of Bride, Brigit,
Bridget, Bridie, or Brid, the celtic Goddess of the Brigands in northern
England, Scotland and Ireland. She was associated with fire, smithcraft,
poetry - the craft of language, and even martial arts.

It is the time when life begins to stirr and move outwards from the
dark cradling of winter. The holiday of Imbolc is a celebration of quickening,
a time for initiations, and commitment to our intent for the year. A time
to honour the maiden, daughter and warrior Goddess within ourselves and
in the world, to risk moving from flowing into stacatto and on.

We will dance the 5Rhythms, give voice, and create ritual that allows
us to express intent with passion and commitment. We will walk a labyrinth
with fire at its centre, and take our lights from it out to the world.

Dancing Nature's Way
for Spring Equinox 2001

March 23 (eve) 24/25

with Cora

Lake Rydal, Grasmere, Cumbria

Dancing the 5 Rhythms allows us to bring the heights and depths of our
being into the essential joyous aliveness of intuitive movement. We can
be startled by the beauty of the familiar, and enter the unknown with a
trusted map and companions.

In a landscape that has long inspired the wild soul to express itself,
we will bring our experience of movement and landscape into creative interaction,
awakening the inner dancer and poet that lives in each one of us.

Practicals

( Limited concessions available, but please enquire early
if you need one).

The venue is Nab Cottage and Barn, a delightful 18th house overlooking
Lake Rydal and backing onto wild, open country. The barn has been converted
into a beautiful dance space. Warm hospitality. We love this venue! Brochure
available.

B&B can be directly arranged with Nab Cottage at around. £24
per night, (twin rooms) . Triples and singles may also be available.
Tel. Tim or Liz at Nab Cottage on 015394 35311 or fax 015394 35493.
Camping may also be possible.

Booking: Send Email to Cora
Places will be limited, so please book as early as you can, and at least
two weeks before the event. Bookings received before March 1st earn a
£5 discount.

Creating Our Changes

with Cora Greenhill

A weekend in beautiful surroundings for women to explore and celebrate
their creative potential, focussing especially on the mid-life cycle.

With 5 Rhythms tm dance, creative writing, and other forms of self-expression
and ritual that suggest themselves.

For some of us, navigating the storms of mid-life can leave us feeling
without a rudder or a route. It can bring crises of confidence, surges
of energy, exhilaration, depression, despair. All in one day. For others
it may be a smooth ride into mellow maturity. But though our culture tends
to pathologise womenís cycles, and menopausal symptoms in particular, it
is through listening and surrendering to the dark as well as the light
Goddess within that we may become ëwomen of wise blood,í and reclaim this
passage as a gateway to power, wisdom - and zest!

For many of us, there seem to be strong resonances between our experience
of the menarche, and menopause. In some societies, it is the crones who
initiate the maidens into womanhood (see Sara Maitlandís wonderful essay
in A Certain Age). Our society lacks traditional rites of passage, but
we can learn to create them for ourselves and our children. It is never
to late to celebrate what we were or invent rituals for losses we have
sustained, so that we enter the next phase more complete, more whole-some.

"We have no rites passed down
for your passing on
can only listen to what our hearts invent
allow all our hearts to invent
each in our own way
for all of us."
(from Petal Child by Cora Greenhill)

By coming together at the beginning of winter to dance our many dances,
share our creative lives, read poems and stories round the fire,
walk round the wintry lake, cackling together as circles of women always
have, we will be doing this vital work for ourselves and other women.

No experience is needed except your own life experience. You do not need
to be menopausal now! If you feel drawn to exploring either in advance
or retrospectively, you are very welcome to come be in our company to
add to the rich brew! How often we hear women say, "If only I'd known
that then!"

Cora Greenhill

I will be 53 in November 2000, so Iím sitting right in the fire with
you! I have been facilitating groups for some 13 years and dancing the
5Rhythms for nearly as many. My professional background is in teaching
and psychotherapy. I am accredited by Gabrielle Roth to teach the work.
I run Inscape Holidays: holiday courses in Crete. I am a writer, and my
recent collection of midlife poems, Deep in Time, (available from me) is
recommended reading! A relevant reading list will be supplied on booking
for those of you wanting it, and Iím sure other great reads will emerge
on the course.

Gabrielle Rothís 5 Rhythms wave dancing is a an inspirational
movement map that allows us to rediscover our inner, intuitive dancer,
and supports her to explore a wide range of ways of being. Age, body type
or level of fitness is not important, what is asked is a desire to let
go of judgements and follow your own body and energy with focussed intent.
Emotions and physical symptoms can be invited into the dance to be expressed.
We become shape shifters. The release of free dancing allows our creativity
to flow freely from the deep wells within us.

Practicals

The venue is Nab Cottage, a delightful 18th century house on the shore
of Rydal Water, between Ambleside and Grasmere in Cumbria. Our dance
space is the beautifully converted barn, which looks onto wild open country.
Nab Cottage offers cosy, comfortable accommodation and the course is fully
catered. Warm hospitality and good cooking is offered by Tim and Liz, with
whom you can also book bed and breakfast if you wish. Please also let them
know of any special dietary requirements.
Phone them on 015394 35311 or fax 35493.
The course will start at 7pm on Friday, and end about 4pm on Sunday.
Cost of £100 includes supper on Friday night, lunches on
Sat and Sun, dinner on Sat and all drinks.
To book your place send a deposit of £50 now, and the balance
to arrive one week before the course. Cheques to Cora Greenhill with cc
details on back.
If you have to cancel up to two weeks before the course, £25
is refundable. After that no refunds can be given unless there is a waiting
list. Places limited on this workshop.
Bursaries: a few bursaries to cover part of the fee will be available,
please apply early.

Bookings (and sales and enquiries after Sept. 20th)

Cora Greenhill

Streetwise to the Templeworkshop for women
with Cora Greenhill

July 29/30, 2000

"I am the honoured and the sacred one
I am the whore and the holy one
I am the wife and the virgin" The Gnostic Gospels.

Aphrodite, Goddess of love and laughter, Shakti, sex goddess, Great Goddess,
Amazon, whore, mistress, wife. How do we as modern women relate our life
experience to time-honoured sacred archetypes of the feminine as well
as the confusing and ever-changing cultural stereotypes? How can we as
women who have had to become "streetwise" to protect ourselves
over millenia, also learn to live in the sexual body as a temple?

These two days will offer spaces for women to explore in 5Rhythm tm dance
and writing, with humour, playfulness and passion, some of the serious,
hilarious, exquisite, paradoxical and perhaps painful aspects of our sexuality.

We will take as a basic premise that our bodies are temples, and that
the space we create is sacred however irreverent our behaviour! We also
acknowledge that the attempts to split body from spirit have formed our
cultural history and wounded us all.
We will dance to allow pleasure to become our teacher and healer. And
we will dance to embrace our polarities, to celebrate our wholeness, and
express the sparkling life force of Aphrodite within.
Dancing frees up our spontaneous creativity, and from this place we can
allow words to drop like ripe apples, bursting with juice and truth. We
will write to bite into some of the myths and secrets of our own
lives, relish their uniqueness and commonality. No particular experience
of writing is required.

Participants should preferably have experience of dancing the 5Rhythms
tm, should be excited by the idea of playing creatively with both ëdarkí
and ëlightí sides of their experience, and willing to take responsibility
for looking after their own needs in the group context, as this is not
a therapy group although powerful feelings may be expressed and will be
honoured.

Books that have inspired me in offering this work include:
Aphroditeís Daughters :íWomenís Sexual Stories and the Journey of the
Soulí by Jalaja Bonhem, Whores in History: Prostitution in Western
Society by Nickie Roberts (Harper Collins), Sweat your Prayers: Movement
as Spiritual Practise by Gabrielle Roth (Tarcher/Putman)., When the
Drummers were Women: Layne Redmond.
I also draw on my experience as writer, dancer, student, and lover;
and of running groups for many years in personal growth, creative writing,
womenís psychology and spirituality, and 5RhythmsTM dancework.

Practicals

This year bookings will only be taken for the whole weekend, not single
days.
Times: Sat. 11am until 7pm. Sun. 11am until 5pm.
Venue: Calver in Derbyshire. Details on booking. Help in finding overnight
accommodation can be offered, but ask early as this is peak season in the
Peak!
Cost £70. A few concessions will be available, please ask early.
£5 reduction for paying in full by June 10th.
Please ëphone or email me with any enquiries.
Book by sending a deposit cheque made out to Cora Greenhill for £35,
Include address and tel no! Bookings will be acknowledged on receipt and
details sent in July. Send Email to Cora

The outward path

5 evenings and a day of 5 Rhythms for high summer!

With Cora Greenhill

Most of us have areas in which we are able to shine easily in the world,
and other areas or levels where we are very shy or afraid to be seen. We
can be shy about parts of us that are wanting to grow, or afraid of showing
the wilder side of our creativity.
Celebrate Summer Solstice
this year by dancing and dreaming an exploration of our feelings about
being out there, shining! This group is for people excited by following
that thread from inner to outer and back again, so that we learn more about
our ability and need to share our unique gifts, as well as how to take
care of ourselves and each other in doing so. Returning our feelings to
the dance again and again, we will also write, draw, talk, and create ritual
theatre along the way.

Dates: Weds. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5.
Each evening will begin at 7.15pm for warm up, and end at 10pm.
On Wed 21st we will make a sunset ritual for Summer Solstice outdoors.

Day workshop on Fatherís Day
Sunday June 18th 11am until 6pm.

The day will also follow this theme, for it is the sacred role of the
father that takes our hand and say ëyesí to our venturing into the world
with our own ideas, visions, passions and relationships. We will creatively
explore ways of taking this role for ourselves and each other, whatever
our personal father stories!

Venue for all sessions: Calver Village Hall

Booking Book in advance for the evenings and the day for the special
price of £60, when paid in full by April 21st
Booking later, or separately, the costs will be: 5 evenings paid in
advance: £40 (concs £35)
(For those who cannot make all 5, you can pay in advance for 4 eves
for £32. No further reductions for non-attendance)
If you have not danced the 5Rhythms before, you should come to the
first evening.
Day workshop alone, £30 (concs. £25) paid in advance.Send
Email to Cora

Mending the Web

Sharpening the Blade

with
Cora Greenhill and Adam Barley

Newcastle
June 30 (eve) July 1 -2

A 5 RhythmsTM workshop for women and men to explore through dance, words
and ritual theatre the gender landscapes we inhabit. Recognising our own
comfort zones and dancing on our edges, we will take steps to affirm and
integrate the inner polarities of our own natures and of the opposite sex.
We can weave back into our dance strands that have been neglected, denied,
and consigned to the dark, while cutting away projections that do not belong.
Allowing our passion, playfulness and vulnerability, we will hope to lay
some inherited ghosts.

On Saturday we will meet the mirrors of our own circle, exploring archetypes
in single sex groups. On Sunday we will greet the other circle in dance
and ritual theatre, sharing our truth with compassion and humour, and together
creating the sacred ground where the circle and the line can weave their
beauty and magic.

Cora and Adam are both accredited and widely experienced teachers of
Gabrielle Rothís 5RhythmTM dancework, and have been friends for many years.
We offer this work from our hearts and it takes us to our edges!
(shall we add a little more about us here - what do you think?)

Dancing Natureís Way

for Spring Equinox 2000

March 24 (eve) 25/26

with Cora

Lake Rydal, Grasmere, Cumbria

Dancing the 5 Rhythms allows us to bring the heights and depths of our
being into the essential joyous aliveness of intuitive movement. We can
be startled by the beauty of the familiar, and enter the unknown with a
trusted map and companions.

In a landscape that has long inspired the wild soul to express itself,
we will bring our experience of movement and landscape into creative interaction,
awakening the inner dancer and poet that lives in each one of us.

( Limited concessions available, but please enquire early
if you need one).

The venue is Nab Cottage and Barn, a delightful 18th house overlooking
Lake Rydal and backing onto wild, open country. The barn has been converted
into a beautiful dance space. Warm hospitality. We love this venue! Brochure
available.

B&B can be directly arranged with Nab Cottage at around. £20
per night, (twin rooms) . Triples and singles may also be available.
Tel. Tim or Liz at Nab Cottage on 015394 35311 or fax 015394 35493.
Camping may also be possible.

Places will be limited, so please book as early as you can, and at least
two weeks before the event. Bookings received before March 1st earn a
£5 discount.
if your enquiry is about the work itself, Send Email
to Cora

The 5 Rhythms "wave" is a movement map that encourages
us to re-discover our inner, instinctive dancer and supports that dancer
to explore a wide range of ways of being.
In flowing we follow the body, breathe in, receive nurture, re-member
our mothering instinct. In staccato we move outwards, define ourselves,
relate to others through the heart. Chaos marries the two, releasing the
wild creative energy of grounded freedom. In lyrical we can open joyfully
to the new patterns ready to emerge, and in stillness we are simply present,
breathing and finding shapes from emptiness.

Anyone can follow this practise: all ages and body types are welcome
and no experience is necessary. The form encourages you to follow your
own energy: many people find they have far more energy for dancing than
they ever believed possible!

We dance inside to a wide range of music, and outside we move with our
breath, voices, and the sounds of nature. Words arise from our depths uncensored,
to be expressed in the moment or to become the beginnings of another creative
wave
of composition or performance.